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Wayne County, Pennsylvania

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2newspaper titles

0digitized titles

18historic places

1865earliest paper

1798formed

51,155pop. 2020

28cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 2 newspaper titles published in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, with the earliest starting in 1865. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 18 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Bethany, Hawley, Equinunk.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Wayne

Library of Congress

2 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
The Banner	Honesdale	1865–1999
Atten-Tion	Honesdale	1890–1899

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18601901194319842026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

10 of 18 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

18 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bellemonte Silk Mill	Hawley	Building	2010
Bethany Presbyterian Church	Bethany	Building	2024
Bridge in Dreher Township	Haags Mill	Structure	1988
Damascus Historic District	Damascus	District	1992
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad Depot	Waymart		1978
Dorflinger, Eugene, Estate	White Mills	Building	1978
Equinunk Historic District	Equinunk	District	1999
Hill's Sawmill	Equinunk	Building	1974
Honesdale Residential Historic District	Honesdale	District	1998
Lacawac	Ledgedale	Building	1979
Milanville Historic District	Milanville	District	1993
Millanville-Skinners Falls Bridge	Millanville	Structure	1988
O'Connor, J.S., American Rich Cut Glassware Factory	Hawley	Building	2005
Octagon Stone Schoolhouse	South Canaan	Building	1977
Patriotic Order Sons of America Washington Camp 422	Dreher Township	Building	2010
Starlight Station, New York, Ontario, and Western Railway	Buckingham Township	Building	2001
Wilmot House	Bethany	Building	1974
Wilmot Mansion	Bethany	Building	1978

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wayne was formed in 1798 (1798-03-21) from Northampton.

WAYNE created from NORTHAMPTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Wayne County population from 1800 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,562	4,127	11,848	32,239	33,513	30,171	27,435	29,934	28,478	28,237	35,237	47,722	51,155

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River	Unit of National Park System and National Wild and Scenic Rivers System	24.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

28 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 28 of 28 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bolkcom Cemetery	41.70043	-75.24271
Canaan Corners Cemetery	41.56706	-75.40567
Darling Cemetery	41.53878	-75.29324
Dyberry Cemetery	41.58397	-75.25809
East Canaan Cemetery	41.51779	-75.40137
East Dyberry Cemetery	41.65382	-75.27026
Glass Factory Cemetery	41.62359	-75.31039
Green Grove Cemetery	41.72561	-75.40259
Hillcrest Cemetery	41.74281	-75.13209
Hillside Cemetery	41.69942	-75.07454
Hollisterville Cemetery	41.39195	-75.43841
Howetown Cemetery	41.31135	-75.39094
Keen Cemetery	41.59295	-75.36881
Kingsbury Hill Cemetery	41.9261	-75.33571
Orson Cemetery	41.82583	-75.4447
Overlook Cemetery	41.70298	-75.06661
Saint James Catholic Cemetery	41.73924	-75.4423
Saint John The Evangelist Roman Catholic Cemetery	41.56222	-75.24917
Saint Juliana's Cemetery	41.78397	-75.34434
Saint Mary Magdalen Cemetery	41.58736	-75.26068
Saint Tikhons Orthodox Cemetery - East	41.51656	-75.40059
Salem Cemetery	41.40063	-75.40106
Schoonover Cemetery	41.59266	-75.26459
South Canaan Bible Protestant Cemetery	41.51091	-75.41629
Tisdale Cemetery	41.45882	-75.36409
Vine Hill Cemetery	41.59194	-75.16643
Wheeler Hill Cemetery	41.73146	-75.41601
Zion Cemetery	41.33854	-75.35055

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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